Coin-handling device.



F. H. CHAPMAN.

COIN HANDLING DEVICE.

APPLICATION FILED JUNE3, 1914.

1,146,921. Patented July 20, 1915.

A TTOR/VEV FILIlMORE H. CHAPMAN, OF KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI.

COIN-HANDLING DEVICE.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, FILLMORE H. CHAP- MAN, a citizen of the United States, residing at Kansas City, in the county of Jackson and State of Missouri, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Coin-Handling Devices; and I dodeclare the following to be a full,gclear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

The present invention relates to coin holding and delivering devices, and particularly to such devices as are adapted primarily to be used as conductors fare boxes or money changers, and the main object in view is to contrive a new and improved device provided with several coin magazines from one or more of which the coins-may be ejected in an effective and expeditious manner.

To this end the invention comprises, in connection with said magazines, a delivering or ejecting mechanism controlled by suitable means associated with each of the magazines, and so arranged that deliveries may be accomplished simultaneously from several magazines, as .desired.

While adapted primarily for use in the handling of coins, it is of course within the scope of the invention to employ the device in connection with other articles which are ada ted to be handled in a like manner.

aving the above stated general object in view, the invention will now be described in connection with the accompanying drawing showing one form of the same as embodied in practice, after which those features and combinations which are deemed to be novel will be severally specified in the appended claims.

In the drawing Figure 1 is a front elevation of a device constructed in accordance with the present invention; Fig. 2 is a plan view of the same; and Figs. 3 and 4 are vertical sections taken on the lines III-III and IVIV, respectively, of Fig. 2.

Referring to the drawing, a series of coin magazine tubes 2 are employed, which may be of the same or different sizes, according to the denominations of the coins to be handled. Each tube is fitted with a slotted cap 4 through which are inserted the coins 6, and the tubes are arranged in a row upon a base plate 8, with which the tubes may be formed integral, or they may be formed separately from it an simply soldered Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented July 20, 1915.

1 Application filed June 3, 1914.- Serial No. 842,651.

thereto or otherwise secured in the relation shown. The bore of each tube is continuous on through the base plate8 (see Fig. 4). x. Secured to the under face of the plate 8 is a bottom plate 10, whichis suitably ribbed or corrugated, as at 12, for forming a transverse vguidepassage 14 under each of the com tubes. These plates are secured together by means of the bolts 11, as well as by the down-turned lugs 13 carried by the plate 8 and embracing the front edge of the plate 10. Mounted reciprocably in each gulde passage 14 is a coin-ejecting plate 16, the front edge of whichis suitably curved (as shown in Fig. 4) for proper engagement with the lowermost coin in the'tube after the plate 16 has been retracted from beneath the tube. The edge of the plate 10 is also correspondingly curved at the front end of each guide passage, in order to facilitate the discharge of the coin when the latter is ejected. 1

At the rear'of each coin tube is an upright plate 18 mounted on the top face of the plate 10. At one side of each plate 18 is pivoted a lever 28 upon a bolt 30 carried by said plate, the lower end of said lever being provided with a pin 32 for engaging a slotted lug 34 projecting up from the plate 16 through a slot 36 in the plate 8. To the upper end of each lever 28 is attached a coil spring 38 which acts to hold the lower end of the lever normally-forward in position to locate the front end of its ejecting plate beneath the stack of coins 6. Below the bolt 30 each lever 28 carries a pin 40 which projects laterally through a curved slot provided in the plate 18 for accommodating the levers movements. This pin 40 is designed for engagement by a' latch 44 located on the other side of the plate 18 and pivotally mounted on a bolt 46 at one end of a lever 48 pivoted at 50 to the plate 18 and provided with a long arm extending to a convenient point in front of the corresponding coin tube where it is provided with a disk'or button 52 adapted to be engaged by the thumb of the user of the device. Each latch'44 is provided with an upwardly extending lug 56 adjacent the pivot bolt 46, to which lug is attached a coil spring 60 acting to hold the latch normally in engagement with the pin 40 and the lever '48 in raised or inoperative position. Each latch is also provided with a downward extension having an inclined edge 62 which, when the lever 48 is operated and the latch moves rearward, comes into onagement with a pin 64, thereby caus ng the atch to be lifted out of engagement wit the in 40. p From Figs. 1 and 2, it will be observed that the levers 48 are of such dimensions and so arranged as to bring their front ends fairly close together, thereby enabhng two or more of said levers, when so desired, to be manipulated simultaneously. The lower edge of each plate 18 is provided with an upturned lugto form a kee er 66 for the lower portion of the adjacent l tch 44:, order to guard against undue lateral motion. The upper edge of each plate 18 is formed wlth a flan e 68 to which is secured, by means of the Imlts 70, a casing 72 of suitable shape and dimensions for inclosing all the parts at the rear of the coin tubes 2. IIooks 74, or any equivalent means, are provided forsuspending the device while in use.

By means of the construction above described, the coins may be placed in the magazine tubes in the usual manner, where they are temporarily supported upon the ejecting plates 16.

In operation, one or more of the levers 48 may be depressed by pressure from the thumb of the operator, it being understood that, in the preferred mode of operation, the levers are operated by the thumb whlle the palm of the same hand is positioned opposite the coin discharge openings for the purpose of receiving the coins which are e ected. As .the levers 48 are operated, the ejecting plates are retracted by the levers 28, against the action of the springs 38, the latches 44 being engaged with the pins 40; the stacks of coins 6, as their ejecting plates are retracted, drop slightly, bringing the lowermost coin in each tube in front of the corresponding plate 16. At this juncture, the latches are automatically tripped by the pins 64, and the levers 28 are free to move under the action of the spring 38, so that the ejecting plates are shot forward and the coins in front of them are discharged from the tubes. Theremaining parts are also returned automatically to original position by the springs 60.

While the foregoing represents what. has been found to be a simple, practical and efiicient means for carrying out the objects of the invention, the right is reserved to any such changes or modifications as may fairly fall within the spirit and scope of the appended claims.

Claims:

1. In a device of the character described, the combination of a coin magazine having a coin discharge opening, means for ejecting a coin from said magazine through said discharge opening, a manually operable member, and a single latch element directly connected to said member and in engagement tract said means into coin-ejecting position" and thereafter automatically release the same. I

3. In a coin handling device, a coin magazine J for supporting the coins in superposed relation, said magazine being provided with a discharge opening, self contained means acting automatically to eject the coins singly through said discharge opening, a manually operable lever, and a single latch element pivotally connected to said lever and carried thereby, said latch element being in engagement with said ejecting means and actuated by a single depression of said lever to retract said means into coin-ejecting position and thereafter automatically release the same. a

4. In a coin handling device, acoin magazine for supporting the coins in superposed relation, said magazine bein provided with a discharge opening, yiel ingly actuated means for temporarily supporting said coins and ejecting them singly through said discharge opening, a manually operable member, and a single element connected to said member and engaging said ejecting means and operative on a single actuation of said member to retract and thereafter automatically release said ejecting means.

-5. In a coin handling device, a coin magazine for supporting the coins in superposed relation, said magazine being provided with a .discharge opening, automatically acting means for temporarily supporting said coins and ejecting them singly through said discharge opening, a manually operable lever, and a single latch element pivotally carried by said lever in engagement with said ejecting means and operative on a single actuation of said lever to retract and thereafter automatically release said ejecting means.

6. In a coin handling device, a coin magazine for supporting the coins in superposed relation, said magazine being provided with a discharge opening, a yieldingly-actuated ejecting means including a plate acting intermittently to support said coins and eject them singly through said discharge opening, a manually operable lever for retracting said ejecting means from coin-supporting into coin-e ecting position, a yielding latch pin, a manually operable'lever for retracting said ejecting plate, said second lever being provided with a latch held normally in engagement with said pin, and a tripping member in the path of said latch for disengaging the same and releasing said yieldingly-actuated lever.

8. In a coin handling device, a coin maga zine provided with a discharge opening and a horizontal guide-passage leading thereto, said passage extending to the rear of said magazine and being provided with a longitudinal slot opening communicating with said passage, a coin-ejecting plate mounted reciprocably in said guide-passage and provided with an extension projecting out through said slot opening, a yieldingly-actuated lever provided with a pin and slot connection with said extension, and a manually operable means for retracting said lever, said retracting means including an automatically tripped latch for intermittently engaging and releasing said lever.

9. In a coin handling device, the combination of a coin tube, means acting automatically to eject the coins singly from said tube, and manually operable self contained means at the rear of the tube for retracting said ejecting means, said retracting means including a latch mechanism acting automatically to engage and release said ejecting means when fully retracted and a lever connected to said latch mechanism and extending from the rear to the front of the tube.

In testimony whereof I afiix my signature in the presence of two witnesses.

FILLMORE H. CHAPMAN.

Witnesses:

O'r'ro SCHMID, CHAS. W. GERARD. 

